James Clyman narrative of experiences, 1823-1824 : Napa, Calif. : ms. S, [1871 & 1879].
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Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831
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Jedediah Strong Smith was born June 24, 1799 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Jedediah Smith of New Hampshire and was the eldest of fourteen children. Jedediah's early childhood was spent in Ohio where he received and English and Latin education. At thirteen he became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter where he learned business methods and met traders returning from the Far West. Jedediah became ambitious for an adventure to the wilderness and he went to St. Louis around...
Clyman, James, 1792-1881
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Virginia-born Clyman first went west with William H. Ashley's fur trading expedition up the Missouri River in 1823. In subsequent years, he lived as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains, served in the Black Hawk War in Illinois in 1832, guided an emigrant party to Oregon in 1844, spent parts of the next two years in Oregon and California, returned to the United States on the eve of the Mexican-American War and relocated permanently to California in 1848, settling in the vicinity of Napa as a farmer....
